I haven’t yet decided what I’ll dig into over the weekend during quiet times. There’s the usual assortment of books and such, but I usually pick one tech thing to explore. Do you keep a list of technologies you want to look into?
[article] Vibe coding is not the same as AI-Assisted engineering. Don’t conflate the two. AI-assisted engineering keeps the human engineer in control. Both have their place.
[blog] Using Gemini CLI to Keep Your User Docs Flawless. Custom slash commands that help you create and update your docs as your code changes. Great use case.
[article] The evolving role of DevProd teams in the AI era. You may have a DevProd team, or even just a person who helps create tools and standards for dev teams. Good look at how that evolves.
[blog] From Message to Job: A Serverless Event-Driven Data Pipeline on GCP. It’s not hard to over-engineer a simple use case. A seasoned technologist can recognize when they’re adding necessary complexity. JK has a useful post about an architecture that might seem over-done, but is actually fairly elegant.
[blog] Event-driven architecture performance testing. It’s not always easy to do functional or performance tests on an async system with many possible outcomes. Here’s some guidance from the Capital One team.
[blog] How to build with Nano Banana: Complete Developer Tutorial. Take a moment this weekend to play with this model. There’s no cost, and it might blow your mind.
[blog] Welcome EmbeddingGemma, Google’s new efficient embedding model. The Hugging Face team went DEEP on this new model.
[blog] How to Build Highly Available Multi-regional Services with Cloud Run. Cloud Run is regional, which is often plenty good enough for a workload. But when you need multi-region support, you’ve got some good ways to do it.
[article] How AI can mitigate legacy tech troubles. It’s a tool that people should use. Don’t rely on it for everything, or fail to audit the work. But skipping AI assistance when planning a migration is a huge mistake.
[blog] Agent Factory Recap: Keith Ballinger on AI, The Future of Development, and Vibe Coding. This was excellent. My boss Keith joined this podcast to offer real insights on AI-assisted engineering before vibe coding an app himself.
[blog] Composing Data from Multiple Services. There’s more than one way to aggregate data and present a unified result. Derek looks at some patterns.
[blog] From query to cart: Inside Target’s search bar overhaul with AlloyDB AI. The folks at Target share a useful level of detail about a hybrid search approach with a modern database.
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